Actually, they licensed the Russian knowledge. Like all successful countries, once they get successful they go from stealing IP to guarding it.

You still have to get there, though it would be a shorter trip then going to Mars, OTOH, you're getting closer to the Sun on the trip so I assume more radiation.
But yes, once there, 50kms up is almost Earth like besides the atmosphere and lack of ground.

They point their guns at you if you get up in their face.

There's this invention called the telephoto lens. They'll never even know they are on Candid Camera.

How about an unconnected mechanical thermostat?

Why not all of them?

You know that you could install an Internet-connected monitoring system. Without putting the control function on line. And include a premises, non-Internet alarm bell, should someone hack the monitor.

"Fuck" like many words has a number of different meanings contingent upon context in which it is used. Nobody reasonably presumes "Fuck the police" has anything to do with sex in the first place. That would be absurd. If this confuses you I recommend Adam Sandler's "Uses Of The Word Fuck".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not at all likewise. "Defund the police" clearly indicates a desire to not fund police. It reasonably has no other meaning in the context in which it is chanted. The obvious consequence of not funding police is no police as police are unlikely to continue to work without funding.

Two words: "eSIM". And "No".

The key word here is "employer". You want me to use your app? You give me a phone that will run it. Because mine won't.

The issue of PCs being seen as less secure cannot be fixed with a fido card. Neither is there a need to poorly reinvent the wheel by using a fido card. Bank cards already have embedded security chips. If the real issue was authentication (It most certainly is not) at worst all you would need is a cheap card reader that costs $15.

This just seems like a pretext for the bank to stalk their customers. The single purpose chip embedded in the card and isn't connected to a global network 24x7 is way more secure than a phone.

I don't see the point of getting rid of Trump if it makes the 48th president of the United States JD Vance.

Remember children in 1978 the age of marriage in Iran was 18. In 1979 it was 9. The guy who took over the country wrote openly about the sexual things men are permitted to do to babies. Let me be clear I don't mean to teens or young children but to actual babies.

Yes there are murders and rapists everywhere but don't pretend it holds a candle to 7th century Islamic barbarism.

The imposition of "morality" into legal systems is itself a shit idea. It is far worse when this imposition takes the form of imposing religion on others. That said Christian bullshit doesn't hold a candle to the barbarism of Islamic bullshit.

This is merely agent Krasnov's pretextual excuse for adhering to the enemy.

> I don't know if you know...

Nobody cares what you don't know let alone what you don't know about what someone else knows.

> Nothing from AI is "written from scratch".

So you've analyzed the corpus of 100% of all things that came "from AI" and for a certainty state the absolutism that "Noting" is "written from scratch." Do you have any sources for this tremendous religion you are forming?

> All of it is based off of stolen work

I've addressed the "All of it" part in the preceding paragraph, but your claim that 100% of what comes from AI is "based off of stolen work" is absurd (and wrong).
Since you're all about "all" and "nothing" I guess it's easily disproved with one counterexample. Here you go:

Your average consumer friendly LLM ("AI") such as e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, has been granted access to —among other things— public domain documents. These include, for this example, the Employment Situation report (aka "Jobs Report") by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A possible query to the LLM such as "Please graph the last rolling 12 quarters by quarter year summary of jobs added and jobs subtracted" would yield a line-graph with two lines. That would "come from AI" not be "stolen" and certainly wouldn't violate any IP laws (copyrights, trademarks, patents, and Trade Secrets).

Take your copyright maximalist backpart outside and don't let the door hit you on yourself, ass.